The Finite Element Analysis in Measurement System of Airplane Fuel Mass

Abstract:

The paper presents the measurement system of the air plane fuel mass consisting of cylinder shell resonating density meter and double cylinders capacitance level meter. The finite element analysis method of ANSYS10.0 is used to analyze the performance of cylinder shell resonator density meter and double cylinders capacitance fuel level sensor. On the base of simulation, the cylinder shell is 45mm in length, 9mm in radius, and 0.08mm in thickness, the material is 3J53; the double cylinders capacitance is 8mm in inside diameter, 23.6mm in outside diameter, and 550 mm in length. The experiments show the uncertainty of cylinder shell resonating density meter is only 0.12%, the uncertainty of double cylinders capacitance level meter is only 0.2%, and the uncertainty of the fuel mass measurement system is 0.4%.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 301-303)
• Pages: 147-152
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.301-303.147
• Online since: July 2011
• Authors: Xiu Wu Sui, Xiao Guang Qi, Da Peng Li, Guo Xiong Zhang, Yu Ming Fan
• Keywords: ANSYS, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Liquid Level Meter, Mass Measurement, Resonating Density Meter

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